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The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media 9th ed. (1999), standard textbook; best place to start. Kotler, Johathan and Miles Beller. American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. (2003) Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States. (2014). ISBN 978-1442225930
Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister in New England and a prolific author of books and pamphlets and is considered one of the most important intellectual figures in colonial America. Mather made free use of the presses in the New England colonies, sometimes in an effort to counter the attacks made on Puritans by George Keith and others. Between ...
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
The newspaper was printed on a printing press imported by Franklin's father, James Franklin (1697–1735), in 1717 from London. [1] The Mercury may be the first newspaper published by a woman in the colonial United States. [2] The Mercury was the also first paper to publish poetry by an African American woman, Phillis Wheatley. [3]
It was printed by American Richard Pierce of Boston, and it was edited by Benjamin Harris, who was a refugee from England who had unsuccessfully tried to establish a free press there. The newspaper consisted of four pages 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (19 by 29 cm), with two columns, with the last page left blank, allowing one to ...
The New-England Courant made its first appearance on Monday, August 7, 1721, printed and published by James Franklin and was the third newspaper established in Boston. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] James was the elder brother of the renowned Benjamin Franklin , and began his printing career in Boston in March 1716 at the age of twenty-five.
It was the first printing press built in the American colonies. [6] [7] Goddard's newspaper was not without its competition. A rival Philadelphia printer, William Bradford III, founder of The Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser in 1742 conducted a newspaper war against Goddard that digressed into personal attacks.
The Maryland Gazette was founded in Annapolis, Maryland in 1727 and published through 1734 [4] by William Parks. [5] [6] Parks moved to Virginia in 1736. [7]The newspaper was both Maryland and the South's first publication, as well as the sixth in the colonies.